I live in southern Saskatchewan and have recently decided that next spring I'm going to move to an acreage and attempt to be at least 75% self sufficient. I simply put into youtube "vegetables for zone 3", and you guys popped up. For the last four days, I haven't stopped watching your guys videos. You guys explain things in a way that makes everything so interesting and entertaining. The excitement I had to move and start this new venture has been amazing, but after finding you guys, it has doubled. Thank you so much for the time and effort you guys put into explaining everything.
I enjoy watching homesteading videos as I have a big back yard garden and enjoy nature and learning new skills. I am so excited to find your channel as you are extremely informative, knowledgeable and different than most channels. You should definitely have a lot more likes on each video as you are prolific growers and very detailed in your information. Thank you.
I grow hops as food. It’s hardy to zone 5. It’s a rampant climber that can grow to 30 feet. You have grow it on a trellis or a tree for support. I actually grow my hops in 20 gallon pots to limit the height to 15 feet. There are three harvests. The new shoots are the first to emerge early in the spring. They resemble little asparagus shoots. They have a very pleasant bitter taste similar to endive. My favorite way to eat them is to add some to scrambled eggs. The sprouts also make an excellent pickle. These sprouts are usually the first thing I harvest in spring. Cut off all of the sprouts except one per plant. The second harvest are the flower bracts or strobiles used to brew beer. I’m not a brewer but I have used the strobiles to make an herbal tea (pretty bitter) as a medicinal. It’s been well known as a sleep aid. I stuffed the strobiles into little pillows to help with insomnia. The third harvest are the hops rhizomes. At first frost, I cut the vines (or correctly “bines”) down to the ground. I turn out the pots to collect the rhizomes. I replant the strongest rhizome and take out the rest. These I clean and cook as a vegetable. They are sweet and taste like carrots. Thanks for sharing your wonderful video. Good luck!
Very clever and productive use of time and resources, I admire the two of you and your lifestyle; looking forward to seeing what your Summer yields and brings forth, keep on keeping on and stay safe.
I love you guys! So glad I had the bell on, I had no idea.. honestly I watch lots of videos and I subscribe to ones I like, and bell the ones I really liked ... I guess I watched and really liked one of your videos because my phone just went off when you uploaded this video 😊 I LOVE that you make the sugar for yourselves! Wow this is actually something that could be a reality one day for some people .. thank you for sharing, this is top quality!
I'm glad we've tried to keep ourselves focused on tracking our various harvests. It's actually opened our own eyes up quite a bit to what we are producing for ourselves. Cheers!
I am so glad you all joined us. I have learned so much from you all. Keep on growing, showing and educating on..I LOOOVE home-grown and self-harvested foods! I prefer fish to any type of meat so I am totally envious!
Love your comment in your last video when you say that most viewer think you are doomsday preppers but you are just foodies !!! Thats kind of me at least when it comes to mushrooms. Just checked that video very briefly when it came but rewatched it now and well, I prepare my harvest pretty much just the way you do it.
@@Wilderstead I get you with the abundance of mushrooms and then also all berries and you just have so much time. Most mushrooms are ripe in the same time as most berries. I can see that a dry summer some homegrown could be a good addition since you can give them some moist. I have had some summers with hardly any mushrooms due to dry weather or maybe some in late fall.
I love your channel ! Its the feeling of being at least partly self sustainable, partly indenpendent of society that you represent and in that environment (the northern areas). I and my wife tried to grow quite a bit back in time and we also did lots of mushroom foraging, mostly with good results, lots of boletus edulis and some other boletus members, chantarelles, black trumpet mushroom and more. sometimes we could exchange mushrooms for a moose steak or something from hunting neighbors. I got honey from a neighbor and I have recently started to tap some birchtrees on their sap but its much less sugar than in the maple you have, about half, but its still quite tasty. I mostly drink it as the sap I hardly get enough to make syrup from it. I also get quite some apples that I slice and dry, make apple pie or just eat (and give away). You are very inspirational and I have a similar climate (less cold winters though). The pop can heather you made some time ago is definitely something I will copy, to begin with for my garage/ workshop.
How did you start out 5 years ago? did you have another homestead before? Did you have skills before, experience? did you move to get more acreage? Did you have to search long to get your property? Have you been thinking about growing mushrooms? there are easy starting kits now, you just drill large holes in a log and put mycel in, then leave it for some time, think you have to keep it moist for best result but I think its fairly easy and there are several species to go for (I am planning to do that even though I have relatively good mushroom in my area).
Well, the very beginning of this channel was our first acreage in Manitoba. We had 60 acres in the eastern part of the province, fairly close to the Ontario boundary. We had moved there from southern Ontario, but Manitoba wasn't offering what we needed in our homestead goals. We eventually started looking in the Algoma region of northern Ontario and found our current property. We have thought about growing mushrooms in the past and have grown from kits before. There is just such an abundance of wild mushrooms around us that we haven't pursued it much. Similar to the various berries and other wild foods that grow here. We just don't see the need to put much effort into cultivating things that grow wild.
I appreciate you doing this series, I'm moving in with my boyfriend and we are trying to be pretty self-sufficient but it's hard to know how much to put in the ground because most RUclipsrs I watch have families so they would need a lot more food than just my boyfriend and I. I like watching you guys because I get a good idea of what I need to plan on growing or harvesting to sustain us for the year.😊
We are really hoping to relay a realistic approach to growing a years supply of various foods for two people. Indeed, most of the videos out there are families with children so we're glad to hear this will be a benefit to folks with smaller households. Thanks for following along!
I meant false chantarelle of course not fase chantarelle. One thing I noticed in your last video when cooking the chantarelles was how smooth your cast iron frypan seemed, is that common or a special brand. my cast iron pans here are much more rough or less mooth if you want.
We regularly season our cast iron cookware. A lot of the 'modern' cast cookware is sold 'rough'. Why, I do not know. Not a big fan of that style either. Most of our collection is older, purchased second hand whenever we see decent pieces.
Do you have the fase chantarelle (Hygrophoropsis aurantiaca) in your area? Very annoying, not hard to separete but sometimes they have a very similar color and hue, and its just annoying to get your hope up...
I live in southern Saskatchewan and have recently decided that next spring I'm going to move to an acreage and attempt to be at least 75% self sufficient. I simply put into youtube "vegetables for zone 3", and you guys popped up. For the last four days, I haven't stopped watching your guys videos. You guys explain things in a way that makes everything so interesting and entertaining. The excitement I had to move and start this new venture has been amazing, but after finding you guys, it has doubled. Thank you so much for the time and effort you guys put into explaining everything.
I enjoy watching homesteading videos as I have a big back yard garden and enjoy nature and learning new skills. I am so excited to find your channel as you are extremely informative, knowledgeable and different than most channels. You should definitely have a lot more likes on each video as you are prolific growers and very detailed in your information. Thank you.
Thanks Beth! Welcome to the Wilderstead!
Zone 2 (Kirkland Lake) here. Thank you for the very inspiring video. Its so hard to find people growing in the same conditions as us. :)
You wanna mess with John-turn in all your weights in grams! LOL..John HATES math and ESPECIALLY GRAMS! You all ROCK!
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Greetings from across the lake! Smelt and salmon!
Wow guys great video well worth the waiting since the last one but can't wait to see summer production.
Thanks! Can't wait to show ya!
I grow hops as food. It’s hardy to zone 5. It’s a rampant climber that can grow to 30 feet. You have grow it on a trellis or a tree for support. I actually grow my hops in 20 gallon pots to limit the height to 15 feet. There are three harvests. The new shoots are the first to emerge early in the spring. They resemble little asparagus shoots. They have a very pleasant bitter taste similar to endive. My favorite way to eat them is to add some to scrambled eggs. The sprouts also make an excellent pickle. These sprouts are usually the first thing I harvest in spring. Cut off all of the sprouts except one per plant. The second harvest are the flower bracts or strobiles used to brew beer. I’m not a brewer but I have used the strobiles to make an herbal tea (pretty bitter) as a medicinal. It’s been well known as a sleep aid. I stuffed the strobiles into little pillows to help with insomnia. The third harvest are the hops rhizomes. At first frost, I cut the vines (or correctly “bines”) down to the ground. I turn out the pots to collect the rhizomes. I replant the strongest rhizome and take out the rest. These I clean and cook as a vegetable. They are sweet and taste like carrots. Thanks for sharing your wonderful video. Good luck!
Very clever and productive use of time and resources, I admire the two of you and your lifestyle; looking forward to seeing what your Summer yields and brings forth, keep on keeping on and stay safe.
Thanks so much! Looking forward to sharing our summer haul!
That is impressive. You guys are doing so well. Congratulations!
Thanks Jim! This summer is shaping up to be a great harvest as well. Hopefully the frost stays away for a while yet!
I love you guys! So glad I had the bell on, I had no idea.. honestly I watch lots of videos and I subscribe to ones I like, and bell the ones I really liked ... I guess I watched and really liked one of your videos because my phone just went off when you uploaded this video 😊
I LOVE that you make the sugar for yourselves! Wow this is actually something that could be a reality one day for some people .. thank you for sharing, this is top quality!
I'm glad we've tried to keep ourselves focused on tracking our various harvests. It's actually opened our own eyes up quite a bit to what we are producing for ourselves. Cheers!
Such a cool video!!! Makes me want to up my game! You two are simply AMAZING!!!❤
Thanks so much!! You can do it!
That is an impressive supply of food!
Thanks!
So inspiring for us! We're also in Canada zone 5 and trying to grow more of our own food on our 10 acre homestead. Thanks for sharing!!
You can do it!
Love it❣
Appreciate you sharing with us ty...😊
Thanks for watching!
Very nice video. Enjoy your videos very much.
Thank you very much! Glad you enjoy watching!
Great Job!
Thanks!
Cheers guys!! ❤
Thanks for watching Patrick!
I am so glad you all joined us. I have learned so much from you all. Keep on growing, showing and educating on..I LOOOVE home-grown and self-harvested foods! I prefer fish to any type of meat so I am totally envious!
Can’t wait to share our summer stuff with everyone! Cheers! ❤️
Love your comment in your last video when you say that most viewer think you are doomsday preppers but you are just foodies !!! Thats kind of me at least when it comes to mushrooms. Just checked that video very briefly when it came but rewatched it now and well, I prepare my harvest pretty much just the way you do it.
Right on
@@Wilderstead I get you with the abundance of mushrooms and then also all berries and you just have so much time. Most mushrooms are ripe in the same time as most berries. I can see that a dry summer some homegrown could be a good addition since you can give them some moist. I have had some summers with hardly any mushrooms due to dry weather or maybe some in late fall.
Yall are very inspiring. Thankyou for sharing how you make your sugar! Awesome!
Our pleasure! It's a really neat process!
You guys rock!!! ❤
I love your channel ! Its the feeling of being at least partly self sustainable, partly indenpendent of society that you represent and in that environment (the northern areas). I and my wife tried to grow quite a bit back in time and we also did lots of mushroom foraging, mostly with good results, lots of boletus edulis and some other boletus members, chantarelles, black trumpet mushroom and more. sometimes we could exchange mushrooms for a moose steak or something from hunting neighbors. I got honey from a neighbor and I have recently started to tap some birchtrees on their sap but its much less sugar than in the maple you have, about half, but its still quite tasty. I mostly drink it as the sap I hardly get enough to make syrup from it. I also get quite some apples that I slice and dry, make apple pie or just eat (and give away). You are very inspirational and I have a similar climate (less cold winters though). The pop can heather you made some time ago is definitely something I will copy, to begin with for my garage/ workshop.
We are working on a much larger version of that heater. Stay tuned!
Another great video!!! Thanks.
Glad you enjoyed it!
How did you start out 5 years ago? did you have another homestead before? Did you have skills before, experience? did you move to get more acreage? Did you have to search long to get your property? Have you been thinking about growing mushrooms? there are easy starting kits now, you just drill large holes in a log and put mycel in, then leave it for some time, think you have to keep it moist for best result but I think its fairly easy and there are several species to go for (I am planning to do that even though I have relatively good mushroom in my area).
Well, the very beginning of this channel was our first acreage in Manitoba. We had 60 acres in the eastern part of the province, fairly close to the Ontario boundary. We had moved there from southern Ontario, but Manitoba wasn't offering what we needed in our homestead goals. We eventually started looking in the Algoma region of northern Ontario and found our current property.
We have thought about growing mushrooms in the past and have grown from kits before. There is just such an abundance of wild mushrooms around us that we haven't pursued it much. Similar to the various berries and other wild foods that grow here. We just don't see the need to put much effort into cultivating things that grow wild.
I appreciate you doing this series, I'm moving in with my boyfriend and we are trying to be pretty self-sufficient but it's hard to know how much to put in the ground because most RUclipsrs I watch have families so they would need a lot more food than just my boyfriend and I. I like watching you guys because I get a good idea of what I need to plan on growing or harvesting to sustain us for the year.😊
We are really hoping to relay a realistic approach to growing a years supply of various foods for two people. Indeed, most of the videos out there are families with children so we're glad to hear this will be a benefit to folks with smaller households. Thanks for following along!
I meant false chantarelle of course not fase chantarelle.
One thing I noticed in your last video when cooking the chantarelles was how smooth your cast iron frypan seemed, is that common or a special brand. my cast iron pans here are much more rough or less mooth if you want.
We regularly season our cast iron cookware. A lot of the 'modern' cast cookware is sold 'rough'. Why, I do not know. Not a big fan of that style either. Most of our collection is older, purchased second hand whenever we see decent pieces.
En Sudamérica....al smelth ....le llaman Pejerey...
Neat! I wonder if it's the same fish? Osmerus mordax is the latin name.
You buy small packets of sprout seeds? Are you able to grow mustard greens etc to seed?
We're hoping to harvest enough sprouting seeds of various types this year to carry us through the whole winter until next spring 😉
Do you have the fase chantarelle (Hygrophoropsis aurantiaca) in your area? Very annoying, not hard to separete but sometimes they have a very similar color and hue, and its just annoying to get your hope up...
We have several mushrooms that resemble chanterelles. Some edible varieties, some not.